about cheritz’s popularity poll
so as most of y’all know, 707 won the popularity poll. no surprise there. sev’s the poster boy, the fan fave, etc etc pretty much everyone saw this coming, and rather begrudgingly so.
however, in a stunning turn of events, it seems cheritz listened to the fandom’s complaints about the clear unfairness of this poll by making more merch with all the characters and another dakimakura for the runner up: jumin han.
overall, i think this was a great move on cheritz’s part! it shows that they’re clearly listening to fans and are more than willing to hear out our grievances and adapt as necessary. unfortunately though, i think doing so may have caused cheritz to inadvertently push some misconceptions about jumin fans within the fandom. this is because jumin’s dakimakura is entitled “possessive jumin in a suit” and alluded to the BE2 of his route via the red ribbons, implying that jumin fans specifically chose the possessive trait in the poll and are therefore romanticizing the unhealthy relationship dynamic in that bad ending.
this, however, is not true at all. to cut right to the chase,
jumin’s dakimakura was not inspired by fan results.
cheritz’s poll only calculated the most popular results overall, not the most popular results for each individual character. 707 was the most popular character overall, seductive was the most popular trait overall, butler was the most popular costume overall, so those three combined results is what created “seductive butler 707.″ due to this, we have no way of actually knowing what the most popular traits and costumes were for each character. so again, just to clarify, we have no idea what the most popular trait was for jumin among his fans and there’s literally no way we can find this information out.
so then, why did cheritz go with this theme for jumin’s dakimakura? in my opinion, there are two possible reasons:
1) the possessive + suit results came in second place overall, underneath seductive + butler.
2) cheritz picked their own theme for jumin’s dakimakura based on what they thought would be safest and most likely to sell.
personally, i think option #2 is far more likely for two reasons. firstly, i dont really think most of the fandom would just-so-happen to pick both “possessive” and “suit” in equal proportions, especially in comparison to options like “cute” or “boyfriend,” etc. secondly, and perhaps most convincingly, look at the descriptions of 707s and jumins dakimakuras respectively:
707′s indicates that his theme was based on the polling results, but jumin’s theme doesn’t mention the poll at all. it was just “created with the concept,” which was likely orchestrated entirely by cheritz. why? bc it was the safest thing to do. the second place polling option results may have been wildly ooc for jumin, or just conflict in general. they didn’t want to risk making an unsellable item, so they chose preexisting characteristics of jumin’s, as seen within his route, and made the dakimakura based on that. it was an unfortunate miscalculation, but an innocent one.
so anyway all my longwinded incoherent rambling aside the tl;dr of this is jumin fans probably didn’t pick jumin’s dakimakura theme so pls do not start using this poll as evidence that jumin fans romanticize BE2, okie dokie?
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